I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at your from within and attacks the immune system. When you have hatred inside you, it always crushes you in the end.

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.